Abstract: There is provided a recording apparatus to perform the recording operation to a recording medium by receiving audio information as the main data and character information as subdata transmitted from a broadcasting station in view of extracting the partitioning code formed of the predetermined code included in the subdata, storing in memory an address recorded in a recording medium when the partitioning code is extracted, automatically performing the editing process based on the address stored in the memory when the audio information as the main data and character information as the subdata are recorded to the recording mediums and easily performing the searching operation during the reproducing operation.

Abstract: A transmission optical signal emitted from a laser diode is introduced in an S-polarized state to a polarization-reflection film formed on an inclined surface of a prism. This transmission optical signal is in a light quantity that is reflected by the polarization-reflection film to enter an optical fiber. With this configuration, an optical transmission-reception apparatus for a single-core bi-directional optical communication circuit enables an enhancement of the efficiency of introduction of the transmission optical signal into the optical fiber constituting the optical communication circuit so that a sufficient performance and reliability of the optical communication circuit is realized without increasing the light quantity emitted from the laser diode which outputs the transmission optical signal.

Abstract: A method of processing picture data, by an electronic still camera, that includes forming image data of an object, displaying the image data as a picture on a display, recording the image data in memory in response to a first switching operation, and reproducing and displaying the recorded image data in response to a second switching operation. The first and second switching operations are carried out by a two-level push button switch.

Abstract: An all-reflective optical system for a projection photolithography camera has a source of EUV radiation, a wafer and a mask to be imaged on the wafer. The optical system includes a first concave mirror, a second mirror, a third convex mirror, a fourth concave mirror, a fifth convex mirror and a sixth concave mirror. The system is configured such that five of the six mirrors receives a chief ray at an incidence angle of less than substantially 12°, and each of the six mirrors receives a chief ray at an incidence angle of less than substantially 15°. Four of the six reflecting surfaces have an aspheric departure of less than substantially 7 &mgr;m. Five of the six reflecting surfaces have an aspheric departure of less than substantially 14 &mgr;m. Each of the six reflecting surfaces has an aspheric departure of less than 16.0 &mgr;m.

Abstract: Ground bounce and power supply bounce are reduced in an output driver by utilizing a plurality of p-channel and n-channel transistors which are connected to an output pad, by sequentially turning off the p-channel transistors before sequentially turning on the n-channel transistors, and by sequentially turning off the n-channel transistors before sequentially turning on the p-channel transistors.

Abstract: A latch-type sense amplifier receives a low level differential small swing input signal pair. The amplifier includes a pair of MOSFET switches of a first conductivity type each having a first source/drain terminal coupled to one of the input signal lines. The latch has a second pair of MOSFETs of the first conductivity type with its first source/drain terminal connected to the second source/drain terminal of one of the first pair of MOSFETs. Each of the second pair of MOSFETs has its first source/drain terminal connected to the first source/drain terminal of a third pair of MOSFETs of the second conductivity type. Each MOSFET of the second conductivity type has its second source/drain terminal connected to a first voltage source. The gate terminals of the second pair of MOSFETs are connected together to receive a control signal. The gate terminals of each of the third pair of MOSFETs are cross-coupled and connected to the second source/drain terminals of the first pair of MOSFETs.

Abstract: The n-channel and p-channel driver transistors of an I/O circuit are electrostatic discharge (ESD) protected by utilizing a pair of well structures that resistively delay an ESD event from reaching the driver transistors, and that form diodes that direct the ESD event to the supply rail or ground of the circuit.

Abstract: A rotation control apparatus which does not rely upon a drop of a signal is provided. A lower limit frequency and an upper limit frequency calculated based on generation patterns of run length limited codes which may possibly be generated stochastically are set as a frequency variation range. When rotation control is performed based on an error between a frequency of run length limited codes reproduced from a disk and a reference frequency while a PLL circuit is not in a locked condition, the reference frequency is varied between the upper limit frequency and the lower limit frequency. Then, the reference frequency which is currently used for comparison when the PLL circuit is put into a locked condition is stored as a fixed value and used as the reference frequency for later rotation control.

Abstract: In a tone color map generating section, a tone color parameter and the effective time for making the tone color map effective are extracted from an SMF stored in a MIDI file database, and the tone color parameter is stored in a tone color map database. When a demand processing section receives a playback start position for starting the playback of the SMF, a read processing section reads the tone color parameter stored in the tone color map database in accordance with the playback start position, and generates time information indicating time to set the tone color parameter in a MIDI device. A sending circuit sends the tone color parameter together with the corresponding time information, and then sends a MIDI signal from the playback start position thereafter, stored in the MIDI file database.

Abstract: In a non-volatile memory cell that has a select transistor and a memory transistor, the substrate trenching that occurs when the gate of the select transistor and the stacked gate of the memory transistor are initially defined is eliminated by forming the gate of the select transistor and the stacked gate of the memory transistor to have substantially the same step height.

Abstract: A disc cartridge includes a shell having one side face and an opening, a shutter mounted to the shell to be slidable along the one side face between a first position where the shutter closes the opening and a second position where the shutter opens the opening, and a misinsertion preventing portion arranged with the one side face of the shell in a portion thereof out of a slide area of the shutter and having a recess for allowing introduction of a misinsertion preventing member of a drive.

Abstract: An image controlling device and method thereof is provided with superior operability when making selections from a menu displayed on a display device such as a CRT display. In the preferred embodiments of the image controlling device and method of the present invention, a menu is constructed by arranging a plurality of menu items three-dimensionally along a cylinder. A portion of these menu items is then displayed in such a manner that viewing is performed from the center of this cylinder outwards. The shifting velocity of the menu items is changed while all of the menu items are shifted in response to input signals from a controller operated by the user and the menu item arranged at the center of the picture is determined to be the selected menu item. When a following level exists for the selected menu item, this level is proceeded to and menu items are displayed on the display device in the same way.

Abstract: A reproduction system includes a host apparatus and a reproduction apparatus for executing a reproduction operation with respect to a predetermined recording medium, both connected so as to mutually communicate. Defect management information is read from the recording medium for necessary address transformation so that the host apparatus can perform the defect management of the recording medium. When requesting the reproduction apparatus to reproduce data, the host apparatus transmits to the reproduction apparatus, physically-reading position information formed by performing address transformation in accordance with the defect management condition. The reproduction apparatus does not need to perform defect management when reproducing data from a read only medium but also a random access medium. This enables provision of a reproduction apparatus capable of using the random access memory medium, with the similar circuit size and cost of a reproduction apparatus adapted for only the read only medium.

Abstract: The scan flip-flop that controls a bi-directional or a switchable high-impedance driver is implemented so that, when a logic value on a first input is latched in response to a first clock signal, and a logic value on a second input is latched in response to a second clock signal, both logic values are output during the second clock period.

Abstract: A plated product and apparatus for forming recesses or grooves on material to be plated to produce such a product. The product includes material having a surface having many recesses, each having an opening of size d, where d is in the range 5-100 microns, a depth in the range from 0.2 d to d, or many grooves. In preferred embodiments, each groove or recess has an anchor portion. In some embodiments, each groove has a ridge portion at each of both edges of its opening. The angle of each groove to the surface of the material and each groove's depth and opening width are preferably in specified ranges. When the material is plated, part of the thin metal film enters the anchor portions of its grooves or recesses, so that the plated metal has superior capacity to resist peeling off of the plated metal.

Abstract: High-voltage n-channel and p-channel MOS transistors are formed on an insulated wafer, such as a silicon-on-insulator wafer. The heavily-doped area of the drain region is separated from the channel region by a lighter-doped area of the drain region which has a lateral width which is substantially greater than the lateral width of the sidewall spacers formed adjacent to the gates of the spacers.

Abstract: A graphics accelerator pipeline including a combiner stage capable of producing output values during each clock interval of the pipeline which map a plurality of textures to a single pixel or an individual texture to two pixels.

Abstract: In an optical system having at least one optical part other than mirrors, for example, a wavelength conversion optical system which uses an external resonator, an optical system which is capable of solving the problem of transverse mode generation due to the existence of scattering matter and the optical crystal used and capable of supplying a stable output (stable wavelength conversion output) is provided. At least at one point in a stable resonator having optical parts (optical crystal) other than mirrors, an aperture having a circular hole with a diameter 1 to 10 times the diameter of a beam at the aperture, a slit having a width 1 to 10 times the diameter of the beam, or an aperture of an arbitrary shape having an edge is located, or a knife edge having an linear or curved edge is Located so that the nearest distance between the edge and the beam is 1 to 10 times the radius of the beam from the center of the beam.

Abstract: An array of sidewall-contacted antifuses is formed by a method that reduces the sensitivity of the array to masking alignment errors. The array includes a plurality of spaced-apart bit lines which are formed in a semiconductor material. Rows and columns of insulated contacts are formed on the semiconductor material such that each bit line is contacted a plurality of times by an insulated contact. In each row of contacts, each contact has an exposed sidewall. A plurality of word lines are formed over the contacts such that a word line is formed over each exposed sidewall in a row of exposed sidewalls. The word line includes a dielectric layer and a conductive layer.